I fed this article through google translate and it was just a picture of Netanyahu pointing and saying “hey look, over there”!

If Israel’s right to exist is a controversial topic, I‘m out.

Fuck me, they’re arguing States rights. Is there a playbook for this atrocity denial or what?

The ultra-orthodox have wanted this for a long time and it’s one of the reasons Israel’s government was trying to curtail the power of the judiciary. You may remember there were protests in Israel over last summer over this.

This isn’t about Pacifism, but more about autonomy and seclusion. I don’t think they mind exposing their youth to bombs and bullets as much as exposure to cosmopolitan ideals they get from mixing with Israel’s more secular youth. It’s similar to the impetus for religious parents to do home-schooling in the US.

Once again, Linux is late with a feature that Microsoft not only has had for years, but is famous for.

Headline: US officials admit that TickTock ban intended to censor Gaza news.

Article: Romney and Blinken blame Israel’s disastrous PR on social media and opine that this is a good reason to ban platforms like TickTock.

Just going to point out the irony that modern Europeans are descended from migrants that infiltrated the Continent and interbred with the locals until their genes and culture were dominant.

Countries that have to jump through hoops to get their hands on, or sell sanctioned goods is an example of sanctions working.

Y’all remember back in 2022 when certain items were hard to get a hold of because of supply chain issues? You could still get what you wanted through the one weird trick of paying a premium for it. And that was a significant factor in inflation.

The goal of sanctions is not to hermetically seal a country off from global markets, but to damage that countries economy.

Back in the 60s, People used to criticize the American Civil Rights movement because the Soviets supported it. Bad faith then, bad faith now.

I normally don’t encourage clicking on someone’s post history, but this jackass is something special.

Is the UN official saying that the pier is enabling the Israeli invasion of Rafah, as though it wouldn’t happen otherwise? Or is he saying that but for the pier, Israel will open more land crossing to aid?

And what is the corrective action? Should the pier be built somewhere else, or not at all? Are their any factors about where to locate the pier besides political? Like the depth of the water or existing infrastructure?

And if the problem with the aid is that it’s a meaningless PR gesture, then does PR medicine not heal? Dose PR food not nourish?

Please help me understand why delivering food and medicine to Gaza is bad.

You value human rights so much you’d strip them from certain people?

You have become the very thing you swore to destroy.

If you want to make seeping, bold, and wrong predictions about the future based on incomplete knowledge of the past, you should try economics.

How you define Jewish is irrelevant. They are the only people with full Israeli citizenship. Israel has racist laws, discriminatory policy, and separate services, like schools. A non-Jew has fewer rights in Israel. You can obfuscate, but you can’t argue.

There is no such thing as a non-Jewish Israeli citizens. Can an Arab “citizen” buy land anywhere they wish? Can an Arab “citizen” repatriate refugee relatives? Can an Arab “citizen” commemorate the Nakba free of government discrimination? Can a political party that advocates equal rights for Arabs seat members in the Knesset?

You don’t get to celebrate diversity in an Apartheid State.

On the SNES, green blood and all.

This is one of those articles that’s dishonest enough to state a rumor as fact, but honest enough to provide the weak evidence for these claims in the body.

You would expect some kind of weasel words like “claims source”, but nope. They back up the claim that an Iranian general was the “Architect” of Oct7 with the fact that official Iranian sources praised his work with Iran proxies in their statement about his death. What would be extraordinary is if an Iranian General didn’t have dealings with that countries proxies.

Iran may well have had advanced knowledge of the attack, or direct involvement. To believe that though, we need evidence. This ain’t that.

The part that stuck with me was how Minderbinder was a patriot. He didn’t see any conflict between profiteering and being a loyal American. Even when that meant plain treason.

Contrast this with Harry Truman. A lawmaker who made his name investigating “war profiteering”. Truman became a Senator because he had the backing of the notoriously corrupt Missouri political machine headed by the boss Pendergast. Truman was nicknamed “the Senator from Pendergast”.

Truman himself wasn’t corrupt. But he was a poor businessman, and maybe that makes him the least American of all.

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I didn’t know the Ukrainians had Flankers. I thought the MiG 29 was their most advanced jet.

A common cause for time issues through power states is a dead CMOS battery.